17AE (ni taou, whom, borne on fancy's eager wing CowPEK. Belg. LIST OF EMBELLISHMENTS, FROM ORIGINAL DESIGNS, BY CHAPMAN, HARVEY, AND OTHERS. ENGRAVED BY A DA MS. IV. Evangelist directing Christian................................... V. Christian running from his Wife and Children..... VI. Help drawing Christian out of the Slough of Despond.. VII. Christian at the Wicket-gate..... VIII. Interpreter showing Christian the Fire of Grace... IX. Christian losing his Burden at the Cross....... X. Christian Weeping in the Arbour....... XI. Christian passing the Lions.... XII. Christian's Fight with Apollyon... XIII. The Valley of the Shadow of Death........ XIV. Christian in the Valley of the Shadow of Death. XV. Christian passing the Cave of Giant Pope... XVI. The Return of Pliable, derided by "all sorts of people.". XVII. Moses and Christ meeting Faithful....... XVIII. Evangelist pointing out Vanity Fair.. XIX. Faithful carried to Heaven....... XX. The Pilgrims in the Dungeon of Giant Despair.. XXI. The Pilgrims escaping from Doubting Castle... XXII. The Delectable Mountains... XXIII. The Perspective Glass.. XXIV. Pilgrins in the Net..... XXV. Christian and Hopeful passing through the River.. XXVI Pilgrims across the River... 9 XXVII. The Author awoke from his Second Dream..... XXVIII. The Mission of Secret to Christiana and Children.......... XXIX. Christiana and her sons........... XXX. Christiana, her Children, and Mercy set off. XXXI. Mercy Faints: the Keeper raises her.... XXXII. The Man with the Muck-rake XXXIII. Parable of the Hen and Chickeps.. XXXIV. Halt of the Pilgrims at the Cross where Christian lost his Burden... ... 260 XXXV. Great-heart, Giant Grim, and the Lions....., XXXVI. The Contented Shepherd-Boy..... XXXVII. The Pilgrims overtaking Honest...... XXXVIII. Great-heart daring Giant Slay.good to Combat.. XXXIX. Pilgrims looking at the Pillar of Salt........... XL. Doubting Castle Demolished.......... XLI. The Pilgrims rejoicing at the Death of Giant Despair. XLII. Sleepers on the Enchanted Ground.......... ..................... ...................... XLIV. Elstow Church and Belfry, Bedfordshire........ XLV. Singular Autograph of the Author......... When Cowper composed his Satires, he hid the name of Whitefield " beneath well-sounding Greek ;” and abstained from mentioning Bunyan while he panegyrized him, “lest so despised a name should move a sneer.' In Bunyan's case this could hardly have been needful forty years ago ; for though a just appreciation of our elder and better writers was at that time far less general than it appears to be at present, the author of the Pilgrim's Progress was even then in high repute. His fame may literally be said to have risen ; beginning among the people it had made its way up to those who are called the public. In most instances the many receive gradually and slowly the opinions of the few respecting literary merit ; and sometimes in assentation to such authority profess with their lips an admiration of they know not what, they know ot why. But here the opinion of the multitude had been ratified by the judicious. The people knew what they admired. It is a book which makes its way through the fancy to the understanding and the heart : the child peruses it with wonder and delight; in youth we discover the genius which it displays ; its worth is apprehended as we advance in years, and we perceive its merits feelingly in declining age. |